Master the art of adding elevation keynotes in your architectural drawings with a step-by-step guide. Learn how to make your annotations clear, precise, and professional, removing any overlaps and ensuring accuracy in every detail.
Key Insights
- The process begins by making 'a.ano.keynote-kitch' the current layer and turning off ortho mode for precise positioning of keynotes.
- The 'mleader' command is used to point towards specific elements like countertops, backsplashes, and cabinetry, with the tag number identifying each item. Adjustments can be made to prevent any overlap with other elements.
- Copying and moving keynotes maintain alignments and consistency across the drawing. The 'ortho' function can help move keynotes across different elevations without disruption.
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Now let's add our elevation keynotes. Let's begin by making sure ortho mode is turned off. Then let's type in layer and we want to make a.ano.keynote-kitch the current layer.
So double click to make it the current layer and close layers. Then we want to zoom in to our door wall elevation and we're going to add in our notes. We'll notice that we have a number two that is pointing directly at the countertop.
So let's type in mleader and we will point towards the countertop. We can click right at the top of the countertop and then move our cursor up and to the left a bit. Click again and now we can enter the tag number.
In this case it's two and click okay. Now I've got this overlapping the door a little bit so I'll click on it and adjust the blue dot until that overlap is gone. Now that I have that one set up I can use co to copy.
I'm going to turn ortho back on and copy it straight up just a bit higher than the number two. Click again, hit escape, and we'll just double click and add in the number which is nine and refers to backsplash. Now we'll copy this again all the way up.
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I'm using copy because it makes it easy to line them up. Click and escape and I'll grab the end of that arrow and drag and click right on top of that cabinet. I'll change the number.
This is number one which has to deal with cabinetry and okay. So that's it for the first elevation. Let's go to number two and we can copy all of these.
Select them, co to copy. If ortho is turned on we can click and just move them across and it works for all of them except for number one. We'll grab that and we'll move, m for move, click one time and go straight down and then we'll grab the arrowhead and point towards this cabinet.
Okay that looks pretty good. Now we also have a keynote here, number five, so let's use our m leader command again, m leader. We'll click right here on our hearth, make sure ortho is turned off, click and then type in five and okay.
There we go. We're all set for number two. Let's go to number three and before we go there let's go ahead and copy two and nine again.
Copy and just click right here and it didn't turn out super well because they're overlapping the dimensions. Let's go ahead and make a change. I'm going to move this one, number nine, up to here.
It'll be a little easier to read and then number two is the countertop. Let's see where else I could place that. Let's go ahead and do m leader and we'll place it over here near the range.
Actually you know what, we'll place it, we'll just copy the number nine again. Copy and we'll just bring it over and drag its leader down to the top of the counter. Double click and we'll make that a two.
Easy peasy. And then we'll do the same for number seven here. We'll just grab this, copy it, make sure ortho is turned on and right there for the range and we'll double click and call this seven.
And we have a number one pointed at the cabinetry so let's do that as well. We'll just do m leader, grab that cabinet corner, make sure we have ortho turned off, click and this is number one and okay. Last but not least we have our refrigerator so we'll do m leader.
We'll grab the corner of the fridge here, pull our cursor to the side, and this is number six for the refrigerator. Okay that looks pretty good. Now we'll go over to our island here and we'll just type these in.
M leader. We'll start with two right here, top right corner, click and type in number two and okay. And then bottom right m leader.
We're looking at the actual dishwasher here so click on the dishwasher, pull that down, click and we'll type in eight and okay. And now we have an m leader off to the side here for our cabinetry. Click, pull that down, that'll be number one and okay.
Good to copy that to the top. If I turn on ortho and move my cursor up and also hover over another number two, sometimes you can get it to snap. It can be a little tricky if it's that far.
Otherwise you can kind of look at the grid line beyond and try to get them to line up. Drag this down, double click and make it three. All right and last but not least we'll copy this over.
C-O to copy, click and move it over and this will be for our sink number four. Okay and then we'll adjust its arrowhead so it's pointing right there at the faucet. And that's it! We now have all of our elevation keynotes.
